According to a report, law enforcement officers first put the men coming out of the mosque on a bus under the pretext of checking their documents. However, after several hours of waiting, they were taken to the military enlistment office in Lyubertsy.
This, Grozny, Xinjiang. Meanwhile, you have useful idiots all over social media, spouting Russian and Chinese propaganda with regards to the Palestinian conflict.
How does not wanting Palestinians to be bombed relate to Russia forcefully drafting muslim minorities?
The common theme in both seems to be quite strong racism against muslims
People who are on ‘team’ Palestine, often unquestioningly parrot Russian (and Chinese) disinformation, because they’re under the mistaken impression that their enemy’s enemy is their friend. Russia has been a longstanding supporter of the Palestinian cause and an ally of Syrian and Iran, dating back to Soviet times. The Arab world often ignores how Russia and China treats Muslims, because it’s politically inconvenient.
Some Muslim lives are clearly worth more than others. Take China. The UN is on record as saying what happened to the Uyghurs may amount to crimes against humanity. An estimated 16000 mosques have been demolished. A million Muslims in camps. Forced sterilisation. Medical experiments. Systemic rape. But you’re very unlikely to see large scale protests to oppose that.
The left and Arab world doesn’t care that much, in part because they’ve bought the Russian/Chinese line hook, line and sinker. Partly because west bad, so China/Russia good. Once you realise how selective the outrage is, it’s also hard not to be cynical about the motives of some of those protesting.
Do they actually care? Are they protesting because they’re angry that people are suffering? Or are they protesting because it’s politically convenient and fashionable?
Obviously, what’s happening in Gaza should be condemned. But it’d be nice if people came to the conclusion that war crimes are always bad, even when the guys doing it are on ‘your team’ and not look the other way.
Well said, thank you for countering the propaganda.
Oh good, now give them guns. I’m sure they won’t retaliate in any way.
National Guard\Internal Affairs doesn’t have a direct connection to MoD and conscription processes. This action, in Moscow of all places, is unprecedented. Who’d sanction such a thing and why? Was it city’s administration? This article leaves a lot of questions unanswered.
Seems like the same old policies, just assembled in a novel way. Attacking religious minorities, using them as cannon fodder, etc.
It’s just weird this escalation happened in previously not-so-opressed Moscow (or I didn’t hear about something like that), used riot cops, packed the mosque goers. There were established channels to do it otherwise but now someone went out of their way to pick new recruits. It’s weird.
And as I was suspecting Moscow’s admin initially, I think it’s to fill the quota per city in a hurry, to show one’s loyalty to the throne. Muslims were targeted not out of hate, but because, in some chekist’s mind, they are those the core russian audience doesn’t care enough to oppose such tactic, causing less political damage (as questions about mobilization are still dodged by authorities). Someone there felt that the numbers are too low, they involved local cops to up them, local cops thought it’s a good idea to silently farm muslim communities and do it like a shopping spree.
At least, in corrupt verticals of power I encountered before, it worked like that.
Muslims were targeted not out of hate, but because, in some chekist’s mind, they are those the core russian audience doesn’t care enough to oppose such tactic …
Doesn’t Moscow have a lot of mostly Muslim immigrants from Central Asia? I’m guessing they might have been targeted as they wouldn’t have many relatives in Russia to file complaints.
Anyway, giving weapons to people who now hate you is probably not a bright idea.
Formally, they still need a registration and an internal russian passport, and hunting them down upsets the local building business, one of the kings here which has a lot of money and influence to make police underlook foreigners working there full-time without papers. News were about harvesting men from places like Buryatia where all are legal minorities, not immigrants. Although the law has been passed about a fast naturalization, I haven’t heard how it was applied. It’s just… tapping into populated cities is what they were avoiding, because there’s a bigger potential to cause problems, especially near the kremlin.
Yeah. Especially thouse who visit services and participate in their religious community. That what leads me to believe it’s an idea of a lower level management put before arbitrary goals.
